A High Court in Kogi State sentences Jibrin Halilu to death after convicting him of offences connected to the abduction and killing of a hotel proprietor in Obajana. The court finds Halilu guilty of conspiracy and kidnapping under provisions of the Kogi State Kidnapping and Other Related Offences Prohibition Law, 2023. According to prosecutors, Halilu and other members of an armed group storm Ever Ready Hotel in Angwa-Tiv, Obajana, and abduct the proprietor, Uche Andrew Offo, on 23 March 2023. Sources cited in reporting say the victim’s family paid a ransom of N2.5 million as demanded, but the kidnappers still killed Offo. One DSS-linked account adds that the victim identified Halilu as his neighbour, and that information contributed to the decision to kill him. The DSS also states that further investigations linked Halilu and his gang to another kidnapping case in April 2023. Media reports describe the prosecution as handled by the Department of State Services (DSS), and the judge who delivered the sentence is named as Abdul Nicodemus Awulu.
Kogi court sentences man to death for kidnapping and killing hotel proprietor
A High Court in Kogi State sentences Jibrin Halilu to death after convicting him of offences connected to the abduction and killing of a hotel proprietor in Obajana. The court finds Halilu guilty of c...
- A High Court in Kogi State sentences Jibrin Halilu to death.
- The court convicts Halilu of conspiracy and kidnapping linked to the abduction and killing of Ever Ready Hotel proprietor Uche Andrew Offo.
- Prosecutors say Offo was abducted in Obajana on 23 March 2023 and the family paid N2.5 million ransom.
- Reporting linked the case to DSS investigation and prosecution.
- One account says the victim recognized Halilu as his neighbour while in captivity.
High Court of Kogi State has also imposed the death penalty on a man the DSS successfully prosecuted for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour, who ran a hotel in Obajana. The post Kogi Court imposes maximum penalty on man arrested by DSS for Kidnap, murder of neighbour appeared first on Vanguard News.
2 months agohe high court in Kogi state has sentenced Jibrin Halilu to death for kidnapping and killing his neighbour despite obtaining N2.5 million in ransom. Abdul Nicodemus Awulu, the trial judge, on Tuesday, convicted Halilu of charges bordering on conspiracy and kidnapping. The charges contravened sections 12, 6 (1), and 4 (3)(a) of the Kogi State Kidnapping and Other Related Offences Prohibition Law, 2023. The Department of State Services (DSS) prosecutor said the convict and other members of his armed gang stormed Ever Ready hotel, Angwa-Tiv, in Obajana town and abducted the proprietor, Uche Andrew Offo, on March 23, 2023. The prosecutor said Offo’s family paid the kidnappers the ransom as demanded. Despite the payment, the kidnappers killed Offo. A source within the DSS said while in captivity, Offo recognised Halilu as his neighbour, which made the kidnappers to kill him. “Further investigations by the DSS also linked Halilu and his gang to the April 2, 2023 kidnapping of one Ibrahim Abdullahi, a resident of Oshokoshoko community in Lokoja, from whom the gang collected a N5 million ransom,” the source said. Recently, a Katsina high court sentenced Hauwa’u Mukhtar, a female arms courier, to death by hanging for conspiracy to commit, aid and abet terrorism. The convict was arrested by DSS operatives. In June, the federal high court in Abuja convicted four persons for their involvement in the June 5, 2022, attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo state. Four of the five suspects initially arraigned were convicted on all nine counts preferred against them by the federal government. The suspects — Idris Omeiza, Al Qasim Idris, Jamiu Abdulmalik, Abdulhaleem Idris, and Momoh Otuho Abubakar — were arraigned on August 11, 2022, on a nine-count terrorism charge.
2 months agoA High Court of Kogi State has sentenced to death a man prosecuted by the Department of State Services, DSS, for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour. This came barely 24 hours after a Katsina State High Court sentenced to death a female arms courier arrested by the DSS. The Court, presided by Justice Abdul Nicodemus […] Court sentences man to death for Kidnap, murder in Kogi
2 months agoA High Court in Kogi State has sentenced a man, Jibrin Halilu, to death after finding him guilty of conspiracy and kidnapping in connection with the abduction and killing of a hotel proprietor in Obajana. The post Kogi Court sentences man to death for kidnapping, murder appeared first on Vanguard News.
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